Publications from AlienImpacts research
AlienImpacts core members in bold
*Joint first, last or corresponding author
Peer-reviewed publications
Bakker, J.D., Price, J.N., Henning, J.A., Batzer, E.E., Ohlert, T.J., Wainwright, C.E., … Catford, J.A., … Wardle, G.M. (2023) Compositional variation in grassland plant communities. Ecosphere 14: e4542. link (open access)
Bartlett, A., Blackburn, T., & Catford, J.A. (2024) Introduction bias and debt in Australia’s alien tree flora. Authorea. link (open access preprint)
Bartlett, A.C., Blackburn, T.M., Randall, R. & Catford, J.A. (2023) Characteristics of Australia’s alien flora vary with invasion stage. Global Ecology and Biogeography 32: 1163-1177. link (open access)
Brian, J.I., Guennec, A.L., Borer, E.T., Seabloom, E.W., Chadwick, M.A. & Catford, J.A. (in press) Plant neighbours, not consumers, drive intraspecific phytochemical changes of two grassland species in a field experiment. AoB Plants.
Brian, J.I., Shepherd, H.E.R., Pérez-Navarro, M.Á. & Catford, J.A. (2024) Release from aboveground enemies increases seedling survival in grasslands. Journal of Ecology 112: 1473-1486. link (open access)
Brian, J.I. & Catford, J.A. (2023) A mechanistic framework of enemy release. Ecology Letters 26: 2147-2166. link (open access)
Brian, J. & Catford, J. (2023) Ecological scale and context dependence. Effective Ecology: Seeking Success in a Hard Science. Ed. R. D. Cousens. CRC Press, Boca Raton. link (to publisher) link (open access)
*Catford, J.A., Graham, L.J., Shepherd, H.E.R., Hauser, C.E., Munro, N., Wintle, B.A., Donohue, J., Tilman, D. & *Clark, A.T. (2025) Multiple mechanisms are required to predict grass community composition. Authorea. link (open access preprint)
Catford, J.A., Shepherd, H.E.R., Tennant, P. & Tilman, D. (2023) Higher plant colonisation and lower resident diversity in grasslands more recently abandoned from agriculture. Journal of Ecology. link (open access).
Catford, J.A., Wilson, J.R.U., Pyšek, P., Hulme, P.E. & Duncan, R.P. (2022) Addressing context dependence in ecology. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 37: 158-170. link (open access) pdf SI
Daleo, P., Alberti, J., Chaneton, E. J., Iribarne, O., Tognetti, P. M., Bakker, J. D., … Catford, J.A., … Hautier, Y. (2023) Environmental heterogeneity modulates the effect of biodiversity on the spatial variability of grassland biomass. Nature Communications 14: 1809. link (open access)
Gregory, D., White, M. & Catford, J.A. (2025) Similar drivers but distinct patterns of woody and herbaceous alien plant invasion. NeoBiota link (open access)
Latombe G., Catford J.A., Essl F., Lenzner B., Richardson D.M., Wilson J.R.U. & McGeoch, M.A. (2022) GIRAE: a Generalised approach for linking the total Impact of invasion to species’ Range, Abundance and per-unit Effects. Biological Invasions 24: 3147–3167. link (open access)
MacDougall, A., Esch, E., Chen, Q., … Catford, J.A., … & Seabloom, E. (in press) Widening global variability in grassland biomass since the 1980s. Nature Ecology & Evolution.
Novoa, A., Moodley, D., Catford, J.A., Golivets, M., Bufford, J., Essl, F., Lenzner, B., Pattison, Z. & Pyšek, P. (2021) Global costs of plant invasions must not be underestimated. NeoBiota69: 75-78. link (open access)
O’Reilly-Nugent, A., Blumenthal, D. M., Wandrag, E. M., Duncan, R. P., & Catford, J. A. (2024) Active restoration after three decades: seed addition increases native dominance compared to landscape-scale secondary succession. Journal of Applied Ecology. link (open access)
Palma, E., Vesk, P.A. & Catford, J.A. (2022) Building trait datasets: effect of methodological choice on a study of invasion. Oecologia 199: 919–935. link (open access)
Pérez-Navarro, M.A., Clark, A.T., Brian, J., Shepherd, H.E.R. & Catford, J.A. (2025) Evidence for environmental filtering and limiting similarity depend on spatial scale and dissimilarity metrics. Ecology 106: e70244. link (open access)
Spohn M., Bagchi, S., Bakker, J.D., Borer, E., … Catford, J.A., … & Seabloom, E. (2025) Interactive and unimodal relationships between plant biomass, abiotic factors, and plant diversity in global grasslands. Communications Biology 8: 97. link (open access)
Spohn, M., Bagchi, S., Biederman, L.A., Borer, E.T., … Catford, J.A., … Yahdjian, L. (2023) The positive effect of plant diversity on soil carbon depends on climate. Nature Communications 14: 6624. link (open access)
Turbelin, A.J., Hudgins, E.J., Catford, J.A., Cuthbert, R.N., Diagne, C., Kourantidou, M., Roiz, D. & Courchamp, F. (2024) Biological invasions as burdens to primary economic sectors. Global Environmental Change 87: 102858. link pdf (author accepted version)
Zhang, P., Seabloom, E.W., Foo, J., MacDougall, A.S., Harpole, W.S., Adler, P.B., … Jentsch, A., Catford, J.A. & Borer, E.T. (2025) Dominant species predict plant richness and biomass in global grasslands. Nature Ecology & Evolution. link
Preprints
Brian, J.I., Shepherd, H.E.R., Pérez-Navarro, M.Á. & Catford, J.A. (2023) Aboveground enemy release increases seedling survival in grasslands. bioRxiv 2023.2010.2006.561247. link (open access preprint)
Catford J.A., Shepherd H.E.R., Tennant P. & Tilman D. (2022) Interplay of limiting factors explains context dependence in plant invasions. Authorea. link (open access)
Pérez-Navarro, M.A., Clark, A.T., Brian, J.I., Shepherd, H.E.R. & Catford, J.A. (2023) Influence of functional and phylogenetic dissimilarity on exotic plant invasion depends on spatial scale. bioRxiv. link (open access preprint)
*Turbelin, A.J., *Hudgins, E.J., Catford, J.A., Cuthbert, R.N., Diagne, C., Kourantidou, M., Roiz, D. & Courchamp, F. (2023) Biological invasions as burdens to primary economic sectors. Research Square. link (open access preprint)
Other contributions
Shepherd, H.E.R (2023) Extreme weather may help invasive species out compete native animals – new study, The Conversation. link
Pérez-Navarro, M.A. & Brian, J.I. (2022) Invasive species: the critical yet complex group driving biodiversity loss. Uniting to address climate change around the world series, King’s College London website. link
UK Parliament POST (2022) Invasive non-native species. POSTNOTE No 673. (Catford as contributor & reviewer). link
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